Welcome Back Wellington 2020
- Date
- Oct 24 - 25, 2020
- City
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Venue
Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn Campus
- Address
- Victoria University of Wellington, Kelburn, Wellington 6012
- Details
Room: Alan MacDiarmid 102 & 104 (AM102 & AM104)
- Website
- Welcome Back Wellington 2020 website
- Contact
- Organizers
- Joshua Brungar and Lucas O'Connell
- WCA Delegates
- Alex Asbery and Luke Heath-Edwards
- Download all the competition's details as PDF .
- Information
Welcome Back Wellington 2020 is an official World Cube Association (WCA) sanctioned speedcubing competition. Speedcubing is solving the 3x3x3 Cube or other similar puzzles as quickly as possible. The competition is open to all competitors regardless of experience and skill, but certain event-based time limits will be in place so as to make sure we can stay on schedule and get through the days on time. No prior experience in WCA competitions is necessary, but competitors should be familiar with the WCA regulations.
- Events
- Main event
- Competitors
- 56
- Registration period
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Online registration opened and closed .
- Registration requirements
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This competition is over, click here to display the registration requirements it used.Register for this competition here.
There is a competitor limit of 60 competitors.
The base registration fee for this competition is $30 (New Zealand Dollar).
If your registration is cancelled before you will be refunded 50% of your registration fee.
No on the spot registrations will be accepted.
If the competitor limit is reached an email will be sent out which will require you to reply in order to confirm attendance to the competition
Payment is done through the same site as registration.
- Highlights
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Click here to display the highlights of the competition.
Adrien Auvray Matyn won with an average of 8.06 seconds in the 3x3x3 Cube event. Ben Kirby finished second (8.17) and Dwyane Ramos finished third (9.03).
| Event | Name | Best | Average | Representing | Solves | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3x3x3 Cube | Adrien Auvray Matyn | 7.19 | 8.06 | New Zealand | 7.61 | 8.13 | 8.44 | 7.19 | 9.76 | |||
| 2x2x2 Cube | Lucas O'Connell | 1.79 | 2.13 | Italy | 1.98 | 1.79 | 2.16 | 2.25 | 2.75 | |||
| 4x4x4 Cube | Ben Kirby | 28.52 | 31.44 | New Zealand | 28.52 | 35.94 | 32.17 | 29.57 | 32.59 | |||
| 5x5x5 Cube | Ben Kirby | 52.93 | 1:00.31 | New Zealand | 56.75 | 1:02.85 | 1:07.64 | 52.93 | 1:01.32 | |||
| 6x6x6 Cube | Ben Kirby | 1:48.34 | NR | 1:59.19 | NR | New Zealand | 1:48.34 | 2:08.14 | 2:01.09 | |||
| 7x7x7 Cube | Ben Kirby | 2:44.07 | NR | 2:54.08 | NR | New Zealand | 2:59.25 | 2:58.92 | 2:44.07 | |||
| 3x3x3 Blindfolded | Tom Nelson | 29.85 | DNF | New Zealand | 30.61 | 29.85 | DNF | |||||
| Megaminx | Alexander Vujcich | 41.37 | 46.03 | New Zealand | 56.09 | 44.61 | 41.37 | 41.44 | 52.04 | |||
| Pyraminx | Jasper Murray | 2.43 | 2.92 | New Zealand | 2.43 | DNF | 2.59 | 3.24 | 2.92 | |||
| Skewb | Dwyane Ramos | 1.79 | 2.87 | NR | New Zealand | 2.97 | 3.41 | 2.22 | 1.79 | 7.18 | ||
| Square-1 | Dwyane Ramos | 11.16 | 13.29 | New Zealand | 15.68 | 13.32 | 14.53 | 12.03 | 11.16 | |||
| 3x3x3 Multi-Blind | Tom Nelson | 21/30 1:00:00 | New Zealand | 21/30 1:00:00 | ||||||||
Time limit
If you reach the time limit during your solve, the judge will stop you and your result will be DNF (see Regulation A1a4).
A cumulative time limit may be enforced (see Regulation A1a2).
Cutoff
The result to beat to proceed to the second phase of a cutoff round (see Regulation 9g).
Format
The format describes how to determine the ranking of competitors based on their results. The list of allowed formats per event is described in Regulation 9b. See Regulation 9f for a description of each format.